[pulseaudio-discuss] system-wide daemon

[Markus Rechberger]

On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 4:44 PM, Ng Oon-Ee <ngoonee at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-02-09 at 15:52 +0100, Markus Rechberger wrote:
> <snip>
>> 1. default Mac from a company
>> 2. open a terminal and play an mp3 with mplayer as normal user
>> 3. going to another PC and logging in with ssh (as root) and playing
>> an mp3 ) -- works
>> 4. again going to another PC and in order you cannot blame it on login
>> as root I added another user and played back another mp3 -- it worked
>> too
>> in any case 2 different users were playing back the mp3.
> <snip>
>> using iTunes and logging in remotely also worked - including audio
>> playback. I can make a video of this if you don't believe it heh.
> <snip>
>
> Am I the only one who sees a bit of a difference between what you and
> Colin are testing? He's testing fast user switching on the same machine
> and you're testing remote logins?
>

no you are right but all together it's only about multiuser audio support.
I never tested fast user switching, but for this it might make sence
to lock the audio stack
even though the corking mechanism is coordinated on app client level
and not on stack/userlogin level.

Markus